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...finished his B.A. in English at Harvard University. He received his Masters of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is earning his Ph.D. in English at Harvard this year. His dissertation is on the rise of creative writing programs after World War II. He is currently working on his second novel.“Writing fiction while doing a graduate degree in English is probably something like being gay in the Army,” Bennett says. “Half your colleagues are titillated by the same thing...
...street violence, not once did I feel as if my life was in constant jeopardy. This past fall, in Creel, Mexico, 14 innocent civilians were gunned down in open daylight on a street I used to stroll on often past midnight. Their deaths were a casualty of the intense war between drug cartels, community law enforcement, and federal troops that increasingly engulfs parts of Mexico...
...matter what specific policies are crafted, the major theme should be this: Although the military may have to be used to control the spread of violence, this only attacks symptoms of the problem, not the source. Ultimately, nothing will address war like the ones in Mexico if it does not curb U.S. and European demand. We need to start treating international drug trafficking as a common public health problem rather than just a security issue...
...Researchers in the U.S. have proposed focusing on prevention, treatment, and education programs to curb demand rather than continue the war on drugs as is. RAND studies in the ’90s found that channeling money into treatment and prevention would be seven times more cost-effective than law enforcement efforts alone and could potentially cut consumption by a third...
...fictional country in West Africa, but he felt that he had to understand the world of a child soldier before he could begin writing. He began reading texts on the subject and interviews with former child soldiers, as well as talking to survivors of the Nigerian Civil War of the 1960s. “You can’t write about it unless you know the rules and regulations of the world you are creating,” Iweala says. Writing his thesis wasn’t any less of an uphill battle once his research was done. Professor Kincaid...